Mobile Communication Syllabus

The main course­book is by Schiller (2003).

Introduction

• Evolution of mo­bile com­mu­ni­ca­tion
• Mobile and wire­less de­vices
• A his­tory of wire­less com­mu­ni­ca­tion
• A mar­ket for mo­bile com­mu­ni­ca­tions
• A sim­pli­fied ref­er­ence model for mo­bile com­mu­ni­ca­tions

Wireless Transmission

• Brief in­tro­duc­tion of fre­quen­cies for ra­dio trans­mis­sion
• Signal prop­a­ga­tion
• Multiplexing
• Modulation
• Spread spec­trum
• Cellular sys­tem

Medium Access Control

• Introduction to MAC
• Telecommunication sys­tems
• GSM
• DECT
• TETRA
• UMTS
• IMT-2000

Satellite Systems

• Review of sys­tems
• Review of broad­cast sys­tems

Wireless LAN

• IEEE 802-11 Protocol
• System Architecture
• Protocol Architecture
• Physical Layer
• MAC Layer
• Newer Developments
• Hiper LAN
• Bluetooth Technology

Mobile Network Layer

• Mobile IP
• Mobile host con­fig­u­ra­tion net­work
• Mobile ad-hoc net­works

Mobile Transport Layer

• Traditional TCP
• Classical TCP im­prove­ment
• TCP over wire­less net­work
• Performance en­hanc­ing prox­ies

Support for Mobility

• File sys­tems
• World Wide Web
• Wireless Application Protocol
• I-mode
• Sync ML
• WAP 2.0 etc.
• Architecture of fu­ture Network and Applications

References